On Tuesday, May 14th ITS will begin activating a new wireless network for guest users. The wireless network will show up as WUGuest and will be open to anyone for Internet access without requiring special provisioning by ITS staff.

This guest network will have some important limitations and is intended to provide access the most commonly used Internet services. Because of its open nature we have taken measures to limit misuse and abuse. If you are hosting guests who will need access that exceeds the limitations noted below contact ITS at support@washburn.edu or at 785.670.3000

Visitors will have to provide their name, e-mail address, and phone number and accept our terms of service in order to use the network. You can preview the sign-in page here: https://netreg.nix.washburn.edu/wuguest.shtml (note that this link will not work off-campus)

Visitors will be able to use WUGuest for up to 3 days at a time, after 3 days they will be locked out of WUGuest for another 3 days before they can access the network again

Access to websites will have the same content restrictions in place at Washburn Institute of Technology. Because of K-12 students there we are mandated to restrict access to certain types of content (e.g. pornography and other material considered harmful to minors), we will extend that content filtering to this guest network

Due to restrictions on the guest network, the following services will not work in most cases:

Insecure SMTP for sending e-mail (port 25)

Network printing

Many chat programs

Most videoconferencing applications

Enhanced video services such as Netflix

Most peer-to-peer file sharing applications

Most multiplayer online games

Anything determined by the content filter to be potentially harmful to minors

We will still register visitors sponsored by faculty or staff for unrestricted Internet access on WUPublic on request. Current faculty, staff, and students will still be able to register their own devices for unrestricted access on WUPublic as well. Note also that WUPublic will be renamed WUCampus on August 1st.

We invite your feedback on this and other issues as we continue to work on improving services to campus.